The talent pipeline for the future of mobility rests at colleges and universities. So it should come as no surprise that about two dozen colleges and related organizations from Michigan, Ohio, Ontario, Canada, and more are among the exhibitors and panel participants at in the Universities & Associations community at AutoMobili-D during the North American International Auto Show (NAIAS).

Automotive thought leaders shared their visions for the Detroit region’s strength in near-future mobility during an AutoMobili-D panel discussion called “The Arsenal of Mobility.” Big message: talent is top priority.

Detroiters may be among the first to receive mobility-specific education and training to support global leadership in automobility, pledges Jessica Robinson, newly-named executive director of the Michigan Mobility Institute.

Urban environments have the most to gain from the first deployments of autonomous vehicles. But how will AVs and smart infrastructures address congestion as cities become more dense? A panel of experts at AutoMobili-D shared some near-future solutions.

Smarter cars mean higher prices. How will OEMs will keep vehicles affordable as customers demand more utility from their cars long after they drive off the lot? Consumer electronics get better with post-launch software updates, after all. Why shouldn’t a crossover that costs orders of magnitude more than an iPhone?

Protecting yourself in a smart car will involve more than buckling your seatbelt. Vehicle cybersecurity is “dependent on the personal security hygiene of the user,” said General Motors director of cybersecurity Kevin Baltes

Join us throughout the week for daily updates from the 2019 North American International Auto Show (NAIAS) and insight from Glenn Stevens, Vice President of automotive and mobility initiatives at the Detroit Regional Chamber and Executive Director of MICHauto.

Michigan has long been known as the global epicenter of automotive design, research and engineering. As the industry undergoes one of its most profound changes, companies large and small are leading the charge in developing next-generation technologies that are ushering in a new era of mobility solutions around connected, electrified and autonomous vehicles.

To better position the state for the coming electrification of the automotive industry, the Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council (EIBC), alongside MICHauto and more than 70 statewide industry stakeholder groups, recently released a new set of recommendations aimed at driving Michigan’s advanced mobility industry forward in a new report.

The dream of autonomous vehicles and the timeline for putting them on the road are vastly different. Consumers are eager to have mobility solutions, but there are still products to develop, technologies to create, and safety controls to establish, agreed "The Road to Autonomy" panel at NAIAS 2019.

Video games represent the bleeding edge of software simulations, and the next generation of mobility startups have been playing for ages. End-to-end game-design tool sets like Unreal Engine from Fortnite mastermind Epic Games and Unity, from Unity Technologies can render gigantic worlds and populate them with AI-controlled inhabitants that behave like humans, pretty easily. Both are free to use.

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Startup Spotlight Podcast: Alisyn Malek, May Mobility

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